Finally took the time to go through some old tapes and find video from the first apartment I had with roommates.
Being video grabs of SD footage, not greatest quality. First date on the tape is from 2/11/02.....(as of me posting this right this minute, this means tomorrow evening will be 20 years ago this was filmed...I think I'm going to go cry now.....)
At this point, I was just about to hit 4 years working at the theater...so the halfway point.
You can see the huge influence it had on me and roommates (who were both brothers)
You would go through the door on the ground floor and immediately there were these stairs.
Handrail on the right had film from a trailer running up it, all around the whole apartment, and back to the front door. On the left side, can't really tell what posters the movies were from here, but above them we had these laserdisc that had come in these cases (I believe you loaded the whole case in the player). I found them in a trash and broke the disc part out and hung them, and the film went across them.
(BTW, did stupid stuff that I highly regret now......as you will see)
Top of the stairs. I had just built this AT-AT. Can also see a lamborghini I had turned into the BTTF "Delorean using radio parts.....only because I had been in 6th grade at the time and mistaken it as a delorean. Both doors went up and all.....I didn't know much about cars back then. Still have it today.
More down the wall. These light saber handles were the roommates and built them with their uncle. Wish I had a better shot. While not completely accurate or anything, they used pipe fittings and knobs and looked pretty good actually.
Here is a screen grab from a little later on, but see down the stairs a bit more. (We were filming a stupid video, me running up the stairs)
This is standing in the kitchen, with those stairs just off camera to the left. I forgot, we had 3 microwaves. An X-wing on the 2nd one.
Most of the kitchen. Cabinets had toys on top of them, scenes from Stars Wars on cabinet doors and....Tim Allen (shadow in window) looking out to the parking lot from the theater standee, Joe Somebody. We would sometimes hide him in different areas and scare each other. I once rigged it with fishing string in the one roommates room, so when he opened the door, Tim came flying at him. Yeah, I won that round big time.
More video from an even later date. Were running out of wall and ceiling space, and fast....
We sadly only lived there for a year and a half, and one of them had to go and get married......
This shot was probably before some of the others...I lost track. Compete bachelor apartment.
One of those big regrets that was made,.... was that ALL these real and official posters, like this Episode II poster, were ALL hung using thumbtacks. I only have 3 left. I think when I moved a few years back, must have gotten rid of them. (maybe I left them with my ex....I can't remember) I have with me now, a Spider-man 2, Signs and Bourne Identity poster, with thumbtack holes in the corners. Probably not worth anything......
This Ep. II poster was a nice hot steal......I was in the theater backroom early 2002. UPS or FEDEX, (don't remember) would delivered all new posters in these orange tubes. I remember seeing one of these tubes that someone had just sat in the back. Someone joked that it was probably the Star Wars poster.....Well, I popped the end off and slide it out a little. I believe there were 6 posters in it....so 3 of us took one and left 2...I'm thinking. Never got caught from management. I think thats probably the only thing I have ever stolen in my whole life. So to know I went through all that just to put thumbtacks....aghhhhh......
So now we get to my room, which was basically a recreation of when I had lived with my parents, just even more extreme.
A few film trailers on top my tv, because, why not???
Becides movie stuff, video game stuff as well, like these Sonic drawings I made myself. As well as these patterns that wrapped around the whole room. Can't really tell from the picture, but I had drawn and colored them all, mainly because, growing up, I have had very bad ADHD. Never could sit still in church so well, so coloring those helped me to keep busy, and also listen. Those I had started in 7th grade and finished a few years later. Still have them all in a box in the closet now.
And the last wall, with scenes I drew from Sonic 2.
So that is the basic still image tour of my apartment from 20 years ago. Which as you all can see, was probably 90% movie theater inspired.
Reminds me, 2002 was the 20th anniversary of E.T. (and now 40th this year)
I had the giant classic Moon cardboard cutout standee hanging on the ceiling as well. I wonder if I have video of that somewhere.....hmmmmmm......
Also going to add, that when we moved in March 2003, we actually broke the least early because the one was getting married, and I couldn't afford the place with just two of us and we couldn't find another person. But, we cleaned it so well and I fixed all the holes in the walls, that we DID get our deposit back. Thats quite a miracle in itself.
